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Empire is, I think, the best history that can instruct us about
those times. You can never invent four rivals after the Ten
Persecutions of the Church, other than Constantine and his
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enemies who fell before him like the three horns that fell
before the little one.
(b) All the four beasts are represented in the vision
as irrational brutes; but the Little Horn possessed a human
mouth and eyes which is, in other words, the description of a
hideous monster endowed with reason and speech. He pro-
claimed Christianity as the true religion, left Rome to the
Pope and made Byzantium, which was named Constantinople,
the seat of the empire. He pretended to profess Christianity
those times. You can never invent four rivals after the Ten
Persecutions of the Church, other than Constantine and his
32
enemies who fell before him like the three horns that fell
before the little one.
(b) All the four beasts are represented in the vision
as irrational brutes; but the Little Horn possessed a human
mouth and eyes which is, in other words, the description of a
hideous monster endowed with reason and speech. He pro-
claimed Christianity as the true religion, left Rome to the
Pope and made Byzantium, which was named Constantinople,
the seat of the empire. He pretended to profess Christianity